Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 7099, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: OO            .                                
                  03/03/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hays) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 2304 and 2305
    4  insert:
    5         Section 34. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
    6  565.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         565.03 License fees; manufacturers, distributors, brokers,
    8  sales agents, and importers of alcoholic beverages; vendor
    9  licenses and fees; craft distilleries.—
   10         (2)(a) A distillery authorized to do business under the
   11  Beverage Law shall pay an annual state license tax for each
   12  plant or branch operating in the state, as follows:
   13         1. If engaged in the business of manufacturing distilled
   14  spirits, a state license tax of $4,000.
   15         2. If engaged in the business of rectifying and blending
   16  spirituous liquors and nothing else, a state license tax of
   17  $4,000.
   18         3. If engaged in the business of manufacturing distilled
   19  spirits as a qualified craft distillery, a state license tax of
   20  $1,000.
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   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 128
   25  and insert:
   26         applicable to the taxpayers; amending s. 565.03, F.S.;
   27         requiring a license tax for each plant or branch of
   28         certain qualified craft distilleries; amending s.
   29         951.22, F.S.;